cotton grass

cotton grass

n.

Any of various perennial grasslike plants of the genus Eriophorum native chiefly to wet places in northern temperate and cold regions and bearing at maturity one or more conspicuous tufts of cottony bristles.

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Noun

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cotton grass - any sedge of the genus Eriophorum; north temperate bog plants with tufted spikes cotton rush sedge - grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers Eriophorum, genus Eriophorum - cotton grass common cotton grass, Eriophorum angustifolium - having densely tufted white cottony or downlike glumes